#arthur dee

That scene where he delivers the letter with Mickelmas in it to Henrietta?  That butler could not have picked a more tense situation to walk into when he stepped into Agrippa’s office:  Dee had just punched Agrippa in the face; Wolff was literally holding Lambe back so that he didn’t go check on Agrippa; and Henrietta, Blackwood, and Magnus were actively threatening him because of everything awful he’d just done.  Instead of making sure Agrippa is okay (since, you know, the butler works for him and everything) or even stopping to ask what in the world is going on, he just hands Henrietta the letter and says “This just came for you” before leaving.

Never have I wanted to know more about a character whose name isn’t even mentioned and who has no significant role in the story.  Did he know what was happening?  Did he care?  What on earth could have been going through his head that made him think “Yes, this is a normal occurrence, everything seems good, I’ll just deliver the letter and be on my way”?

Frontispieces and pages from Arthur Dee’s Fasciculus Chemicus—published by Elias Ashmole (artists unknown, 17th century).

Samuel Salinas: A really new vampire. Like really new. Worryingly new. Part of a plot new. And he's also 12. And also heck it, toss him at Myrnin, because having him deal with a child in mental distress was apparently a good idea to younger me and I'm loath to change my post canon plots nooooow. At any rate, I love him dearly, little sunshine boy. Uses he/him.

Pax Salinas: We repeat, worryingly new vampire. Sam's brother. Uses he/him.

Worrying large amount of Goldman vampires. Why? Because RPs. Do I remember which are my OCs anymore? Nooope. Theo and Patience and Patience Jr, and Jakob are the only four I know I didn't make up out of my head, but if the others are appear in the books, I'm assuming I just gave them names? If there are no mention of them (I think for example I gave Theo another kid in Marcel) than they're just made up.

Anyway. Marcel Goldman: Son of Theo Goldman. He's dead by the time my post-canon stories usually take place. Whoops. I ... really wish I'd fleshed him out more, but we're making up for lost time. We'll get there. he/him

Aaron Goldman: Grandson of Theo Goldman. He's an ass. I love him. Another of Bishop's little messed up 'let's change the children' ideas, along with his cousins Jakob and Patience Jr. So fun times there! He's less of an ass than Aurelia. Will protect his family with his life, thank you very much. he/him

Aurelia Goldman: Granddaughter of Theo Goldman. Also a really angry person. But we love her anyway. she/her

Julius Goldman: Human. Married Marcel and into the family. he/him

Penny Goldman: adopted by Julius and Marcel Goldman. she/her

Bella: She sucks. All you need to know. Sam and Pax's mom and a piece of work. she/her

Harquin Day: Not actually a member of Day family, but sort of adopted on somewhere down the line. Their Protector and occassionally will use their roof for star-gazing. General opinion of him is iffy in recent generations, just as a general reaction to all vampires, but he's slowly improving in their books. Not particularly scary on first look, tends to give off cool uncle vibes. But he can stand up for himself in a way that proves how he's managed to survive in this life. Rather impressive scowl. More 'distant' than anything and totally started using the 'Day' last name without permission, but no body remembers a time he didn't, so there's no one around to fight him on it anymore. He's a therapist, usually reserved for vampires, but has been known to take in the occassional other.

Uses they/he pronouns. Not old-old, but certainly has been around several centuries.

Janus: Officer in the police force. Vampire. Shane partners with her sometimes when he needs vampiric backup. I've only used her once, we'll see if I use her again. she/her Arthur Dee:

Historical figure, so technically exists, so heh? Anyway, was a brief fling of Myrnin's back in the early 16th century. I refuse to believe Myrnin is not queer shaped in some way, so I poked around for an old alchemist and found this man and now I've adopted him and writing a book about him. Please ask me about Arthur Dee, I can tell you how he accidently maybe on purpose murdered his in-law, it's great. ANYWAY he's not a vampire. 100% human and died in the mid 16th century. Myrnin does not like mentioning him. It ended very poorly. he/him John Smith:

Not that John Smith. I just lifted him from another story to briefly use as Amelie's bodyguard. I use him for the same purpose now and again. he/him

One would think I'd have more human characters, but noooo, not me. Though Julius is one of my favs, so like, maybe he makes up for it.

I have ART. These characters live on Art Fight, 'cause of course they do. I don't have anything for Harquin, Pax, Aaron, or Aurelia, despite having pages and pages of writing about all of them. Whoopsy. One would think the length of description equated to how much I liked them, but if anything it's the reverse. Don't get me wrong, love Harquin, but I've used them as a character (RP or stories) all of ... three times give or take. While the others are, like, practically main characters. But whatever.

Gotta talk about my brainrot historical character eventually.

One of the neat things I love learning about is just finding a useless little piece of the puzzle of a timeline.

Like I wanted to have a better idea of when he met his wife. Like, there's documents about roughly when they married, but when did he meet her?

More amused then finding out around when was the fact he apparently asked someone (wasn't his father, I'm honestly a touch surprised he didn't ask John Dee ... wonder why) to do an horoscope reading about their compatibility.

Like ... my dude. How often did Arthur do one before he asked a different dude?

I don't even know who Napier is yet!

(Source:

[Text: Hee sayd also that Kelly delt not justly by his father, and that he went away with the greatest part of the powder and was afterward imprisoned by the Emperor in a castle, from whence attempting an escape downe the wall, hee fell and broake his legge and was imprisoned agayne. That his father, Dr. John Dee, presented Queen Elizabeth with a little of the powder, who having made triall thereof attempted to get Kelly out of prison, and sent some to that purpose, who giving opium in drinck unto the keepers, layd them so faste asleepe that Kelly found opportunity to attempt an escape, and there were horses readie to carry him away; butt the buisinesse unhappily succeeded as is before declared.] Like Kelley (excuse spelling differences, it's not uncommon and I've chosen to use Kelley as the form I pick to refer to him) just fully has this "magic" powder and steals it, goes and gets imprisoned, and fell out of a tower. Please note no one knows how this dude actually dies. This is one of the ways his legend says he dies. Falls out of a tower. But no, the story connected to it is even more wild. He just hippity-hops off to who knows where and we don't know.